Face Off (2011) s03e04 Episode Script
Alice In Zombieland
Previously on Face Off The artists teamed up to make original Chinese new-year dragons, and their makeups were put to the test in an acrobatic dance.
Derek's unique vision took him to the top.
But his twin brother Eric fell short and was sent home.
Now nine artists remain.
Tonight they will dive down the rabbit hole.
Yay! I love Alice in Wonderland.
The virus has infected Wonderland.
I got a plan.
It's gonna be something nobody's ever seen before.
It just crumbles into, like, four pieces.
I screwed up really bad.
And zombies take over the reveal stage.
I love it.
Well done.
- That is the most distracting, God-awful thing I've ever seen.
I'm definitely going home.
In the end, only one will win the opportunity to be a guest lecturer at Make Up For Ever's academies in New York and Paris, a new 2012 Toyota Prius V, and $100,000.
And for the first time ever, America, your voice will be heard in selecting the winner.
Only one will win Face Off.
I won last night.
It was bittersweet.
Derek had to go home.
Waking up this morning was pretty sad with my brother not here.
We pushed each other.
I want to win this for myself.
But it's gonna give me a push to win it for my brother.
Let's go, let's go, let's go So we head downtown this morning for the next foundation challenge.
Oh, no.
Is it something like a battle royal where nine walk in and one walks out? Welcome to one of the most hard-core fighting gyms in Los Angeles.
Before I tell you anything more, I want to introduce you to your guest judge this week.
She's a four time world-championship professional boxer, who went undefeated her entire career.
- Please welcome Laila Ali.
- Thank you.
Laila Ali-- She's a legend.
It's really cool to meet her.
So excited to be here.
Thank you.
We are excited to have you.
So, guys, in films like Raging Bull and Rocky and The Fighter, makeup artists have been called upon to create a realistic trauma makeup for the big screen.
That is the basis of your foundation challenge, to make your models look like they have just gone through a nasty ten rounds in the ring.
So, Laila, needless to say, you do know what this stuff looks like.
A lot can happen in a fight.
You can get anything from a busted lip to a broken nose, bruising, swelling, a gash over your eye.
So there's a lot that can happen over ten rounds.
Your models and makeup stations have been randomly assigned.
The winner will receive immunity and cannot be eliminated in the spotlight challenge.
Remember, guys, realism is everything today.
You have 90 minutes.
Get ready, contenders, because your time starts now.
Ready to get all bloody and disgusting today? Yeah.
This is pretty easy.
I used to take martial arts, and I feel like I got a good shot at taking this foundation challenge.
And I think I'm gonna go subtle and realistic with the swollen-eye prosthetic.
Ready to beat you up.
My plan is to build up a lot of swelling around the face, do a broken nose, busted lip, and then some body bruising.
Just blend, blend, blend, blend, blend.
I'm trying to incorporate everything that laila had to say-- punches, bruising, to swelling-- without overdoing it.
I'm going with some blues on my paint job.
And once I do that, it just starts turning purple.
This ain't gonna be good.
Five minutes, guys.
I need to just kind of like, smear across your face.
That's it.
Brushes down.
He got his eye pretty messed up in this fight, and his lip is cut, and he's bleeding everywhere.
I like the way that the blood is splattered over his body.
The only thing I will say is that the color of the blood looks like it's older.
When you just come out of a fight, it wouldn't be that thick and that dark.
He's actually the winner of the fight, despite how he looks.
Swelled up his eye.
Both his ears got cut in the fight.
You did a pretty good job with the thickness of the blood, it's kind of watery, because in a fight you're sweating.
It looks good.
Busted lip, broken nose, a little bit of gashes.
I think you did a good job with the swelling, just the shape of it around the eye and then down the cheekbone.
The lip looks very, very bloody.
He's taken a couple blows to the face, and we have a busted nose and a split in the eyebrow that's still fresh.
Being that he is beat up pretty bad, there would be more blood on his body.
Got you.
All right, Laila, so how did they do overall? You know, I thought everyone did a really great job.
It seems like they knew in their mind what their fighter was going through, and they went from there.
Who were your favorites? Nicole, your model looks like he just came out of a bloody fight.
Very believable.
Jason, that eye was great, the cuts were very realistic for a boxing match.
Thank you.
All right, Laila, who is the winner of this challenge? The winner of this challenge is Jason.
- Sweet.
- Yoo-hoo.
Even though your model didn't have as much as everybody else's, what you did do, you nailed.
Jason, congratulations.
You have earned immunity and cannot be eliminated in this week's spotlight challenge.
That feels good.
This is the first time that I've been on top, on any challenge.
- I'm stoked.
- Great job today, everyone.
I will see you tomorrow for your next spotlight challenge.
Good job, everybody.
We're walking around Descanso Gardens, and it's absolutely beautiful.
We come through the woods, come around this bend, then, all of a sudden, all of these colors pop out.
There's pink mushrooms and oversized sunflowers, and it looks amazing.
And McKenzie's standing in this magical garden, and I'm thinking, "oh, great.
We're gonna do munchkins or fairies.
" Welcome to the beautiful Descanso Gardens.
This week your spotlight challenge inspiration comes from a very famous book.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Yay! I love Alice in Wonderland.
If I had a tail, it'd be wagging.
This book has become a phenomenon, saturating pop culture and spawning several feature films.
But it's also found its way into places that you really would never expect, like the Resident Evil film franchise.
I love the franchise.
I've watched the movies since I was a kid.
Finally a challenge that I wanna tackle.
The Resident Evil films take place in a world infected by the T-virus, which turns humans and animals into zombies.
Today, that virus has infected Wonderland.
- Yes.
- This is amazing.
Oh, my God.
Your spotlight challenge is to create a completely original take on one of the iconic characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a virus infected zombie.
Wow.
We have Alice, the Hatter, the Queen, Cheshire Cat, and White Rabbit.
Jason, go ahead and pick your card.
I choose the Hatter.
Rabbit.
Ooh.
I'm taking the rabbit.
The Hatter.
The Queen.
Cheshire Cat.
Okay, now that you each have your characters, take some time here to work on your designs, and then head back to the lab, pick your models and get started.
It's really important to have a good design before you go into makeup, because it's easier to execute.
I'm gonna be wanting her to have the rabbit in her hands and she's just gnawing away on it.
Just really dark.
I'm gonna make Alice more my style.
My idea is to have her becoming a mutant zombie.
It's like her skin creates a crown in her clothing.
I grew up in a Mennonite community, so I don't really know very much about zombies.
I'm not really getting any sketching done.
Nothing's really coming to me.
I'm thinking more of, like, a thrasher zombie.
He has all these wristwatches going arm for each stage of the infection.
All right.
That's it.
We get to the lab, and I immediately started sculpting.
First step to creating a prosthetic is sculpting clay on the cast of the model.
And for my cheshire cat, part of his face is gonna be missing a lot of the skin.
So it's only gonna have whiskers on one side of his face, and then the other side, his teeth are gonna be exposed.
I'm gonna individually glue teeth on the prosthetic.
My character, she ripped all of her hair out.
She's tweaking out.
But just like everything I do, there'll be some form of sex appeal in this.
I'm lost on the concept and frustrated that I don't know what to make.
Just one concept not completely going through the way you want it to-- That's what's gonna send somebody home.
Coming up My cowl falls on the ground, ears first.
I want to cry.
- That is the most God-awful thing I've ever seen.
The pressure is on.
I have to turn a Cheshire Cat into a zombie.
I am having some trouble sculpting.
I don't know what to make, other than just a cat with a big grin.
Think of, like, the original, and then think about just shredding up the original version.
I talked to Nicole a little bit, and her suggestion really helped.
So I decided that this cat is not a happy kitty that sits in your window and looks outside all day long.
This is a dead, run over roadkill cat.
I'm going to use this immunity to try out some new things and different techniques.
My makeup is gonna look cool or it's gonna look terrible.
Regardless, I'm gonna still be here.
So this is probably one of the most complicated makeups that I've done.
My concept is a skull piece on the bottom, and there's skin over it.
If I can pull it off, it's gonna be something that nobody's ever seen before.
By the end of today, I want to have my face and chest sculpted.
With the chest piece, you could see the rib cage and the deterioration of the skin.
My goal is to have this sculpt out in the next two hours.
It's time to make the mold.
We do this by covering the sculpture with a cement-like product.
After that hardens, it's time to remove the clay on the inside, and we either pour silicone or foam latex into it and have our final piece.
I have my face done.
I have my cowl roughed out.
I'm feeling really good at this point.
- 19 seconds.
- Shit.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Time.
That's it.
There you go.
It's day two of our "Alice in Zombieland" challenge.
My cowl is on its way to being finished, and I'm feeling really good.
- You okay? - Oh, shit.
Alana, what happened? My cowl falls on the ground, ears first.
What the fuck am I gonna do? I want to cry.
I don't have time for this.
No use crying over a spilled bunny, right? I'm thinking, wouldn't it be cool if the mad hatter's measuring tape was some of his intestines, and he was confused, because he's a zombie, that it's his actual measuring tape? So that's when it starts getting a little gory.
Hey guys.
I'm here with Neville to do a little walkthrough, see how you're doing.
I'm really excited to talk to Neville.
I'm really anxious for him to see this from the drawing stage to where it's at right now.
So tell us about your concept and what you're doing with the queen.
The plan is to take it and have, like, her skin and her muscles actually coming up and creating the crown.
So the face is actually-- Yeah, the skin on it is just, like, tearing away and it goes up and forms a crown.
- Cool idea.
- Yeah.
So you have the queen.
Tell us about your concept.
The queen is infected with something that speeds up her metabolism.
And she just needs fresh blood.
The more she gets, the fatter she gets.
Such a great idea, but it needs to work visually as well.
So you want it to be demonstrative visually.
- So you have Alice.
- I do.
You were the only person to chose Alice.
I know.
She's gonna have, like, her rib cage kind of showing and then this bottle.
Can you explain a bit more about the wound.
Has this bottle been stabbed into her? And somebody went-- It feels more like the bottle is - Coming out.
- Exploding out, yeah.
- Pushing from the inside.
- Right.
Once he said that, it clicked.
I'm like, "oh, my God.
It's like a bullet.
" So, you chose the hatter.
Tell us about your concept.
When he died, he fell on the table, and all of the dishes and cups and teapots got into him.
So I'll be adding it into the body.
All embedded into his body? - Exactly.
- That's cool.
We're going totally Resident Evil on this one.
Good.
I thought if the white rabbit was just thrown in this situation and he's infected, he's always worried about time.
He puts all these wristwatches on his arm, and each watch is a timer to each stage of the infection.
I'm curious how you're gonna go about painting these pieces.
We're gonna start with a dark wash, so I can get all of these nice crevasses, but the outer layer is a nice clean base for me to brush over.
Just be careful.
You might end up with so much texture that, at a distance It's gonna be hard to read much.
Okay.
Very cool.
So with the cheshire cat, what are you doing conceptually with it? Head to toe costume.
So I'm actually making a body suit right now.
- I'm gonna use some of this fur.
- Wow.
- Wow.
Yeah, I realize it's incredibly ambitious.
God, yeah.
The overall dominance of your character is gonna be in how you make the fur zombie-like.
And maybe even some hair product would be good.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Who do you think is really standing out? Rod.
I love the idea a lot.
Will he be able to pull that off? And Roy, conceptually, head to toe, very cool idea.
- He's doing a lot.
- He is.
So with Sarah and her cheshire cat? I'm a little concerned she is gonna be burdened with this choice of making this huge statement.
And I'm a little concerned about Tommy's.
I think that it could get worse in paint.
Mm.
Thank you very much.
We'll see how this all turns out.
All right, everybody, we're heading out.
Good luck tomorrow.
- Thank you.
- See you.
See you later.
Now I'm starting to do a decapitated version of the human head.
But it's a whole another makeup, it really is.
It's not just a head prop, it's a key feature here.
Since I have a cat costume, and I don't want them to look like a mascot or like a kitty, I'm making some foam pieces to put underneath the fur to give it kind of a lumpy, bumpy, creatur-y thing.
I want it to look really ratty, have skin pieces on it falling apart.
And then I decide to use some gelatin.
Basically, just making it a mess.
I'm back in the mold room.
And as I'm scraping out clay Oh.
The wrist literally shatters, on it, into, like, four pieces.
It just crumbles.
I'm just like, "no.
" I don't know if you noticed this, but I'm pretty jealous.
I wish I had some sexy glasses.
Sadly, as one gets older, they need glasses to see detail up close.
So I have these glasses and they're really great glasses.
You can snap them together, snap them apart.
And they're there, they're not gonna fall.
Oh, I don't know, know, man.
Fuck, I don't know.
I'm freaking out.
I got 30 minutes left, and I got this shattered mold, and I'm just like, "no.
" I really want this extra arm.
I feel like this is gonna give me the leg up.
So I brush in two nice coats of latex, kind of slap one on top the other, and then duct-tape it all together so the pieces hold.
I hope it dries overnight and, you know, the next day, come what may, man.
All right, that's got to work.
If it doesn't work, I'm fucked.
Everyone's doing these amazing creatures.
Wow, that outfit came together.
All I got is a human zombie.
I got to amp it up a little bit.
I find some rope.
This is gonna be a quick and easy way to make some intestines.
You just look so disgusted.
You're like, "Ew.
" All right, guys, that's time.
So by the end of the day, I'm nervous about tomorrow.
I'm worried about my painting, and getting all the pieces applied on time and finished.
'Cause we only have five hours altogether to finish our piece, and that's not that much time for a whole character.
It's application day.
We have four hours in the lab to do all of our application with our models.
Then we have one hour for last looks.
The first thing I do is I look at my pieces.
And they all turned out fantastic.
I came here to fight and compete.
And I'm-- Damn it-- I'm gonna compete.
I just know I need to save my rabbit zombie arm.
Got more work in here.
This is the first time I've ever done a zombie.
I want my queen to be short, so decide to go with Kevin, who was shorter.
I hope you're ready for the mad hatter.
I really do.
How does it feel? - I mean, nose and everything? - It feels good.
I'm not liking my paint job right now, because it seems a little flat.
So I need to put some kind of detail for depth.
I'm hoping that having my little extras make this character over the top and awesome to look at.
Squeeze it.
Yes! It worked.
Oh, my God.
It's exactly what I was thinking.
Like, just these boils-- just, like, infection, just, you know? Oh! Loving it! I'm loving it.
It looks cool! All right.
Let's start this makeup.
I'm feeling so nervous, and I'm looking around me, and I'm seeing that everybody is basically done applying their makeup.
And I'm-- I don't even have the ears on my thing yet! I'm just staring at this thing and I'm just baffled on how I'm gonna get this to work.
At this point, I cannot figure out a way to get these ears to stay up.
I don't know how to get these ears to stay up.
I'm freaking out.
I'm-- I feel like an idiot.
I'm just like "how could I not prepare for this to happen?" I'm just like, "don't cry, don't cry, don't cry.
" Just calm down.
Don't panic.
Who do I go to but Roy, because that's my mold cowboy.
Just turn it inside out.
The foam is what's giving it so much weight, so Roy helps me pull the foam out to get this ears to stay up.
Or we bend it that away.
- Yeah, that'll work.
- Okay.
I'd kiss you on the mouth, but it's very inappropriate.
I can't thank you enough, dude.
Sorry, I wont torture you that much longer.
I've got the face applied, and now I'm pinning the skin over the face, and everything has just come together on this.
Do me a favor and open your mouth for me.
You're the prettiest ugliest thing I've seen in a while.
I look up, and I see Derek's makeup, and I see how fantastic he's doing.
It's pushing me to go harder.
I'm almost thinking, "let's not use that.
" I am nervous about the look of the overall character, because with so many prosthetics, it looks too realistic, as if he's not wearing anything.
And I don't know if that's gonna hurt or help me.
Look straight ahead.
Laying hair is not something I normally do, so with the immunity, I'd like to just give it a shot and see what I can do.
If this arm would have came out like it would, you'd be able to slip it on like a glove.
That's how I designed it.
My zombie rabbit arm-- of course, it looks like crap.
I'm just wrapping it tight, and I'm stuffing foam in some of the bulgier areas.
You know, old-school bush-league tactics, but you know, when you're put up against the wall, what are you gonna do? A rabbit, for me-- this is how I feel all the time.
I feel like I'm constantly running out of time.
It really is ripping her head back.
A real dead body is pretty colorful.
There's a lot of blues, there's a lot of purples, there's a lot of green, yellow.
And I'm painting and it's not looking like what I'm picturing.
Oh, please make me be able to do the detail in time.
- What's the time? - Five minutes.
Thank you.
- I'm excited.
- Is that yours? Fits better? I'm now freaking out.
That's time, everybody.
I've got a lot of work for the last hour.
I have to do all these veins that I haven't touched yet, because I'm not sure what color to put on them.
There's just a lot of things that aren't clicking in this paint job, and I'm really concerned.
Coming up Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
I'm feeling like I could be one of the bottom looks.
A bit of a mess.
I'm just mesmerized by the look of this makeup.
We have one hour of last looks, and we got to get everything done as fast as we can.
Oh, my God.
All right.
I'm just gonna start painting.
My airbrush is broken.
Plan "B" is to just paint by hand, which is gonna take so much more time.
All right guys, that's ten minutes.
We got ten minutes.
My paint it getting darker and darker.
I made a lot of wrong color choices.
Fuck! And that's time, everyone.
Brushes down.
Everybody's look so good, and I'm a little worried at this point.
Everything went wrong, and I ran out of time.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
First let's say hello to your judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening.
- Hey.
Three-time Oscar-winning makeup artist, Ve Neill.
Hi guys.
Creature and concept designer, Neville Page.
Hello.
And joining our panel this week, writer, producer, and director, with films like Event Horizon, Death Race, Alien Vs.
Predator, and, most recently, The Three Musketeers.
He's also written and produced all the Resident Evil films.
The newest addition to the franchise, Resident Evil, Retribution, which he also directed, comes out this Friday.
Please welcome Paul WS Anderson.
It's really cool to have Paul WS Anderson here to judge our zombie makeups.
I'm hoping that when he looks at my piece, he sees that Resident Evil quality.
Paul, thank you so much for joining us.
It's my pleasure to be here with so many talented people.
Okay, guys.
So your spotlight challenge this week was an original take on one of the classic characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as a zombie.
Let's see what you come up with.
I still don't think I've got a chance at the top.
I think my cat's too generic.
I feel good at this point, but I've been feeling good all day.
It's just a nice feeling to know that I'm safe.
Under the lights on the stage, it's looking really, really, really dark, and I'm noticing a bunch of flaws.
I think I put too much blood on him.
I'm worried that maybe they're not gonna see all the details as well as I hoped.
I see my creature come out, and it looks like a hillbilly rabbit.
I should have taken a step back and looked at it as one piece, but I was so into it, I got blinded.
Everybody else's looks so much more developed.
I'm feeling like I could be one of the bottom looks.
I'm feeling really good about this makeup.
It's probably one of the best ones that I've done since I've been here.
I'm really, really pleased with it.
It's definitely different from what other people have created.
I'm thinking, "that's not too bad.
" My makeup walks out, and I am thrilled.
If I go home, I will go home with my head held up high.
Well, judges, why don't you take a closer look? Wow, this is colorful.
Ah, thank you.
- Nice brain.
- Thank you.
Mouth open and close? Mm-mm.
- It doesn't open at all? - Mm-mm.
Okay, thanks.
Tilt your head all the way back, please.
I like the top half of it.
And from the bottom down, I screwed up really bad.
That's gonna put me at the bottom.
We want to know what you think of tonight's transformations.
Tell us on Twitter using #FaceOff.
I know it's bad.
I'm just hoping that my concept, at this point, is gonna save me.
Shoulder pad? - It's creeping me out.
- Yeah.
I know.
I still love it.
I'm really confident that I'm at least safe.
Open and close your moth.
Can you turn profile for us? Don't pull on those ears.
Those things are put together with latex, a lick, and a promise.
Paul, what were your thoughts? How do you think they did? There was a lot of creativity that went into it.
And to see how many great ideas there are here, I was really impressed.
Thank you.
All right, well, the judges have scored your creations, so let's find out what they thought.
Sarah, Jason, and Alana You are safe.
Thank you so much, guys.
Please head back to the makeup room.
So that means the rest of you were the best and the worst looks of the week.
The judges would like to speak with each of you to learn more about your work.
Tommy, you're up first.
Tommy, give us a background on the ideas you were working with here.
Well, my concept was the infection is running through his body.
He can see that different stages are happening at different times, so he puts all these wristwatches on.
While those watches are still ticking, he's running through the city, and he's taking out zombies.
And what we have here is finally the last watch ran out, and he quite literally ran out of time.
It seems like there's some cool ideas in there.
I can't see them.
I don't know what's happening, because you've just kind of got that loathsome device known as fun, fur, and gore.
I love all the concepts behind your creation.
And, I've got to say, I love the top 15% of it, which is the head.
I just wish the rest of your creation kind of matched what you've done with the-- with the head.
His left eye is such a big feature, but there's not enough gloss to make it stand out.
It's a bit of a mess.
What the heck is he wearing, and why? That is the most distracting, God-awful crap I've ever seen.
Um, well, in the storybook, he has got, like, that tweed jacket.
- Dude, that is not tweed.
- Oh.
That is a bloody flannel shirt.
Tommy, thank you.
You can step back.
Laura.
So, Laura, tell us about your thought process behind this.
He's a zombie but he still has that memory of being a hatter, so he uses his intestine as a measuring stick to measure the hats.
Nice.
One of the things I love about him is there's a real unity.
The color pallet is all very unified, which, I think, is very, very strong.
I think he's a wonderful creation.
- Thank you.
- I love it.
I love the fact that it's sympathetic, and it's locked in this echo of the human emotions, and it makes it more frightening.
Well done.
Yes.
Thank you.
Laura, please step back.
Roy.
Tell us about the inspiration behind this character you've created.
Uh, the inspiration is that this is the queen, and she's been infected with the virus, and so she's starting to mutate.
And her skin is making her into the queen, so she's forming the crown out of her skin, and all of her clothing is starting to just rip away and pull and bend and twist into-- into her wardrobe.
I'm just mesmerized by the look of this makeup that you did.
- Really beautifully done.
- Thank you very much.
If I was making a movie, I'd be delighted to see a design like this.
But also, I'd be expecting a team of like six or seven people to execute it.
I think it's quite remarkable.
Roy, the fact that you've created the design on the top of the head that is so regal and elegant is my absolute favorite thing about this makeup.
Well done.
Roy, thank you very much.
You can step back.
Thank you.
Nicole, you're up.
Give us a brief description of the concept.
I wanted to play off the eat me, drink me.
I wanted this vial to be the infection, and then she's now eating the rabbit.
I like the ideas, but it's the paintwork that really makes it go flat.
She just disappears.
I don't know what would have possessed you to make her face all dark.
Even if your veins went south, you could have painted the veins on by hand.
I applaud the ambition of the pulsing boils, but that stuff is really difficult to get right.
You know, maybe just a bit too ambitious for the time that you had.
Nicole, thank you.
Will you please step back? Derek.
I got to tell you, when he first walked out, I thought he made a pink cat, own criminy.
" And then I got up close.
And it's pretty cool.
I mean, the asymmetry is great.
The whiskers on one side, the teeth on the other.
He's morphed, he's gross, he's very colorful-- I got to give it-- but the cheshire cat was purple, so there you go.
I'm not sure what it is, but there's something about that shirt color that I really like.
The mouth on the left side is fantastic.
I love this design.
It encapsulates the world of mutation in Resident Evil.
I love how asymmetrical the whole design is, which I think is really fresh.
Cool, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Derek, thank you so much.
Will you please step back? Rod, please step forward.
Rod, give us the backstory to your character here.
The virus that she's infected with has hyper-accelerated her metabolism.
Because of that, her skin goes from full-sized to shriveled and back and forth.
And that's what all the texture has come from.
I'm having a hard time finding the driving forces propelling this design.
I don't really understand the color choice that you made by giving her this skin color.
It's not really rotten and it's not really dead, and it's just kind of an odd color choice.
And I think, for me, you just kind of missed the mark on it.
What I don't find at all is a zombie infected with the virus.
You've missed the point of the whole challenge.
Rod, thank you very much.
- Thank you, thank you.
- Please step back.
Okay, well, the judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room while they make their decisions.
All right guys, so let's start with the looks that you like the most.
Why don't we start with Roy.
I really dug that makeup.
You know, with the right lighting and a little gloss, that thing could be amazing-looking just as it is.
It really captured what I think is great about Resident Evil, which is the kind of mutation aspect of it.
Okay, let's move on to Laura's makeup.
There are no gaps between the coloring of her makeup, the wardrobe choices, even the concept.
Very, very solid all the way through.
Very well executed.
All right, let's move on to Derek.
It was really, really good.
I loved the mask.
I loved the asymmetry of it.
When we got up close to it, you really could see the detail a lot better.
All right, so why don't we move on to the looks that you liked the least.
Let's start with Tommy.
It looks like even that one big bulging eye just sort of got lost in the makeup.
I was disappointed with the design.
It felt very thrown-together.
All right, let's move on to Nicole.
I can't believe that she would just paint the face charcoal gray.
The boils that looked like brains, you know, it just looked like bad brains.
Yeah.
All right, let's move on to Rod.
This bums me out so much.
For me that makeup looked like a very bizarre old-age makeup.
It has nothing to do with Alice in Wonderland.
And then it has nothing to do with zombies.
- Right.
- Like drinking blood.
That's more kind of vampiric.
Okay, judges, have you made your decisions? - I think so.
- We have.
Yes.
Let's bring them back out.
all right, Glenn, why don't you tell us about the top looks? This week our top looks are Roy We loved your hyper-stylized queen, and we thought that you accomplished an absolutely amazing amount of work in the time that you had.
Thank you.
Laura You made some really interesting sculptural choices, and you really managed to create this feeling of sympathy with your character.
Derek Your design really captured the spirit of this challenge.
And your asymmetrical approach to your design left a big impression on us.
Paul, why don't you do the honors tonight, and tell us who the winner of this challenge is? The winner is Paul, why don't you do the honors tonight, and tell us who the winner of this challenge is? The winner is Roy.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
This is the best moment I've had on the show, because this is me individually with a win, finally.
Roy, congratulations.
You can head back to the makeup room.
Laura and Derek, you are also safe.
Please head back to the makeup room.
Unfortunately, that means the three of you were on the bottom this week, and one of you will be eliminated.
Nicole, Tommy, Rod If you'd please step to the center.
Glenn, why don't you tell us about the bottom looks? Tommy, I think you might have had some good ideas, but it's just impossible to see any of them.
Nicole, there is just too many things that went wrong for you tonight, in particular, your paint job.
Rod, it didn't read as a zombie, and we were just confused.
All right, Glenn, who's going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Nicole.
Ultimately, we felt that there were so many ways that you could have saved your makeup.
The rest of you are safe this week, and can head back to the makeup room.
Thank you.
Nicole, we can tell that you have a great passion for your craft.
Just keep plugging away, you'll get there.
I will.
Thank you.
Nicole, it's been really great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room, and pack up your kit.
Thank you guys.
Hi.
- Me.
- No.
A lot of people go through life and never find what they love to do, and I'm a lucky person that's found that.
Makeup is my soul.
It's what I live for.
Derek's unique vision took him to the top.
But his twin brother Eric fell short and was sent home.
Now nine artists remain.
Tonight they will dive down the rabbit hole.
Yay! I love Alice in Wonderland.
The virus has infected Wonderland.
I got a plan.
It's gonna be something nobody's ever seen before.
It just crumbles into, like, four pieces.
I screwed up really bad.
And zombies take over the reveal stage.
I love it.
Well done.
- That is the most distracting, God-awful thing I've ever seen.
I'm definitely going home.
In the end, only one will win the opportunity to be a guest lecturer at Make Up For Ever's academies in New York and Paris, a new 2012 Toyota Prius V, and $100,000.
And for the first time ever, America, your voice will be heard in selecting the winner.
Only one will win Face Off.
I won last night.
It was bittersweet.
Derek had to go home.
Waking up this morning was pretty sad with my brother not here.
We pushed each other.
I want to win this for myself.
But it's gonna give me a push to win it for my brother.
Let's go, let's go, let's go So we head downtown this morning for the next foundation challenge.
Oh, no.
Is it something like a battle royal where nine walk in and one walks out? Welcome to one of the most hard-core fighting gyms in Los Angeles.
Before I tell you anything more, I want to introduce you to your guest judge this week.
She's a four time world-championship professional boxer, who went undefeated her entire career.
- Please welcome Laila Ali.
- Thank you.
Laila Ali-- She's a legend.
It's really cool to meet her.
So excited to be here.
Thank you.
We are excited to have you.
So, guys, in films like Raging Bull and Rocky and The Fighter, makeup artists have been called upon to create a realistic trauma makeup for the big screen.
That is the basis of your foundation challenge, to make your models look like they have just gone through a nasty ten rounds in the ring.
So, Laila, needless to say, you do know what this stuff looks like.
A lot can happen in a fight.
You can get anything from a busted lip to a broken nose, bruising, swelling, a gash over your eye.
So there's a lot that can happen over ten rounds.
Your models and makeup stations have been randomly assigned.
The winner will receive immunity and cannot be eliminated in the spotlight challenge.
Remember, guys, realism is everything today.
You have 90 minutes.
Get ready, contenders, because your time starts now.
Ready to get all bloody and disgusting today? Yeah.
This is pretty easy.
I used to take martial arts, and I feel like I got a good shot at taking this foundation challenge.
And I think I'm gonna go subtle and realistic with the swollen-eye prosthetic.
Ready to beat you up.
My plan is to build up a lot of swelling around the face, do a broken nose, busted lip, and then some body bruising.
Just blend, blend, blend, blend, blend.
I'm trying to incorporate everything that laila had to say-- punches, bruising, to swelling-- without overdoing it.
I'm going with some blues on my paint job.
And once I do that, it just starts turning purple.
This ain't gonna be good.
Five minutes, guys.
I need to just kind of like, smear across your face.
That's it.
Brushes down.
He got his eye pretty messed up in this fight, and his lip is cut, and he's bleeding everywhere.
I like the way that the blood is splattered over his body.
The only thing I will say is that the color of the blood looks like it's older.
When you just come out of a fight, it wouldn't be that thick and that dark.
He's actually the winner of the fight, despite how he looks.
Swelled up his eye.
Both his ears got cut in the fight.
You did a pretty good job with the thickness of the blood, it's kind of watery, because in a fight you're sweating.
It looks good.
Busted lip, broken nose, a little bit of gashes.
I think you did a good job with the swelling, just the shape of it around the eye and then down the cheekbone.
The lip looks very, very bloody.
He's taken a couple blows to the face, and we have a busted nose and a split in the eyebrow that's still fresh.
Being that he is beat up pretty bad, there would be more blood on his body.
Got you.
All right, Laila, so how did they do overall? You know, I thought everyone did a really great job.
It seems like they knew in their mind what their fighter was going through, and they went from there.
Who were your favorites? Nicole, your model looks like he just came out of a bloody fight.
Very believable.
Jason, that eye was great, the cuts were very realistic for a boxing match.
Thank you.
All right, Laila, who is the winner of this challenge? The winner of this challenge is Jason.
- Sweet.
- Yoo-hoo.
Even though your model didn't have as much as everybody else's, what you did do, you nailed.
Jason, congratulations.
You have earned immunity and cannot be eliminated in this week's spotlight challenge.
That feels good.
This is the first time that I've been on top, on any challenge.
- I'm stoked.
- Great job today, everyone.
I will see you tomorrow for your next spotlight challenge.
Good job, everybody.
We're walking around Descanso Gardens, and it's absolutely beautiful.
We come through the woods, come around this bend, then, all of a sudden, all of these colors pop out.
There's pink mushrooms and oversized sunflowers, and it looks amazing.
And McKenzie's standing in this magical garden, and I'm thinking, "oh, great.
We're gonna do munchkins or fairies.
" Welcome to the beautiful Descanso Gardens.
This week your spotlight challenge inspiration comes from a very famous book.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Yay! I love Alice in Wonderland.
If I had a tail, it'd be wagging.
This book has become a phenomenon, saturating pop culture and spawning several feature films.
But it's also found its way into places that you really would never expect, like the Resident Evil film franchise.
I love the franchise.
I've watched the movies since I was a kid.
Finally a challenge that I wanna tackle.
The Resident Evil films take place in a world infected by the T-virus, which turns humans and animals into zombies.
Today, that virus has infected Wonderland.
- Yes.
- This is amazing.
Oh, my God.
Your spotlight challenge is to create a completely original take on one of the iconic characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a virus infected zombie.
Wow.
We have Alice, the Hatter, the Queen, Cheshire Cat, and White Rabbit.
Jason, go ahead and pick your card.
I choose the Hatter.
Rabbit.
Ooh.
I'm taking the rabbit.
The Hatter.
The Queen.
Cheshire Cat.
Okay, now that you each have your characters, take some time here to work on your designs, and then head back to the lab, pick your models and get started.
It's really important to have a good design before you go into makeup, because it's easier to execute.
I'm gonna be wanting her to have the rabbit in her hands and she's just gnawing away on it.
Just really dark.
I'm gonna make Alice more my style.
My idea is to have her becoming a mutant zombie.
It's like her skin creates a crown in her clothing.
I grew up in a Mennonite community, so I don't really know very much about zombies.
I'm not really getting any sketching done.
Nothing's really coming to me.
I'm thinking more of, like, a thrasher zombie.
He has all these wristwatches going arm for each stage of the infection.
All right.
That's it.
We get to the lab, and I immediately started sculpting.
First step to creating a prosthetic is sculpting clay on the cast of the model.
And for my cheshire cat, part of his face is gonna be missing a lot of the skin.
So it's only gonna have whiskers on one side of his face, and then the other side, his teeth are gonna be exposed.
I'm gonna individually glue teeth on the prosthetic.
My character, she ripped all of her hair out.
She's tweaking out.
But just like everything I do, there'll be some form of sex appeal in this.
I'm lost on the concept and frustrated that I don't know what to make.
Just one concept not completely going through the way you want it to-- That's what's gonna send somebody home.
Coming up My cowl falls on the ground, ears first.
I want to cry.
- That is the most God-awful thing I've ever seen.
The pressure is on.
I have to turn a Cheshire Cat into a zombie.
I am having some trouble sculpting.
I don't know what to make, other than just a cat with a big grin.
Think of, like, the original, and then think about just shredding up the original version.
I talked to Nicole a little bit, and her suggestion really helped.
So I decided that this cat is not a happy kitty that sits in your window and looks outside all day long.
This is a dead, run over roadkill cat.
I'm going to use this immunity to try out some new things and different techniques.
My makeup is gonna look cool or it's gonna look terrible.
Regardless, I'm gonna still be here.
So this is probably one of the most complicated makeups that I've done.
My concept is a skull piece on the bottom, and there's skin over it.
If I can pull it off, it's gonna be something that nobody's ever seen before.
By the end of today, I want to have my face and chest sculpted.
With the chest piece, you could see the rib cage and the deterioration of the skin.
My goal is to have this sculpt out in the next two hours.
It's time to make the mold.
We do this by covering the sculpture with a cement-like product.
After that hardens, it's time to remove the clay on the inside, and we either pour silicone or foam latex into it and have our final piece.
I have my face done.
I have my cowl roughed out.
I'm feeling really good at this point.
- 19 seconds.
- Shit.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Time.
That's it.
There you go.
It's day two of our "Alice in Zombieland" challenge.
My cowl is on its way to being finished, and I'm feeling really good.
- You okay? - Oh, shit.
Alana, what happened? My cowl falls on the ground, ears first.
What the fuck am I gonna do? I want to cry.
I don't have time for this.
No use crying over a spilled bunny, right? I'm thinking, wouldn't it be cool if the mad hatter's measuring tape was some of his intestines, and he was confused, because he's a zombie, that it's his actual measuring tape? So that's when it starts getting a little gory.
Hey guys.
I'm here with Neville to do a little walkthrough, see how you're doing.
I'm really excited to talk to Neville.
I'm really anxious for him to see this from the drawing stage to where it's at right now.
So tell us about your concept and what you're doing with the queen.
The plan is to take it and have, like, her skin and her muscles actually coming up and creating the crown.
So the face is actually-- Yeah, the skin on it is just, like, tearing away and it goes up and forms a crown.
- Cool idea.
- Yeah.
So you have the queen.
Tell us about your concept.
The queen is infected with something that speeds up her metabolism.
And she just needs fresh blood.
The more she gets, the fatter she gets.
Such a great idea, but it needs to work visually as well.
So you want it to be demonstrative visually.
- So you have Alice.
- I do.
You were the only person to chose Alice.
I know.
She's gonna have, like, her rib cage kind of showing and then this bottle.
Can you explain a bit more about the wound.
Has this bottle been stabbed into her? And somebody went-- It feels more like the bottle is - Coming out.
- Exploding out, yeah.
- Pushing from the inside.
- Right.
Once he said that, it clicked.
I'm like, "oh, my God.
It's like a bullet.
" So, you chose the hatter.
Tell us about your concept.
When he died, he fell on the table, and all of the dishes and cups and teapots got into him.
So I'll be adding it into the body.
All embedded into his body? - Exactly.
- That's cool.
We're going totally Resident Evil on this one.
Good.
I thought if the white rabbit was just thrown in this situation and he's infected, he's always worried about time.
He puts all these wristwatches on his arm, and each watch is a timer to each stage of the infection.
I'm curious how you're gonna go about painting these pieces.
We're gonna start with a dark wash, so I can get all of these nice crevasses, but the outer layer is a nice clean base for me to brush over.
Just be careful.
You might end up with so much texture that, at a distance It's gonna be hard to read much.
Okay.
Very cool.
So with the cheshire cat, what are you doing conceptually with it? Head to toe costume.
So I'm actually making a body suit right now.
- I'm gonna use some of this fur.
- Wow.
- Wow.
Yeah, I realize it's incredibly ambitious.
God, yeah.
The overall dominance of your character is gonna be in how you make the fur zombie-like.
And maybe even some hair product would be good.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Who do you think is really standing out? Rod.
I love the idea a lot.
Will he be able to pull that off? And Roy, conceptually, head to toe, very cool idea.
- He's doing a lot.
- He is.
So with Sarah and her cheshire cat? I'm a little concerned she is gonna be burdened with this choice of making this huge statement.
And I'm a little concerned about Tommy's.
I think that it could get worse in paint.
Mm.
Thank you very much.
We'll see how this all turns out.
All right, everybody, we're heading out.
Good luck tomorrow.
- Thank you.
- See you.
See you later.
Now I'm starting to do a decapitated version of the human head.
But it's a whole another makeup, it really is.
It's not just a head prop, it's a key feature here.
Since I have a cat costume, and I don't want them to look like a mascot or like a kitty, I'm making some foam pieces to put underneath the fur to give it kind of a lumpy, bumpy, creatur-y thing.
I want it to look really ratty, have skin pieces on it falling apart.
And then I decide to use some gelatin.
Basically, just making it a mess.
I'm back in the mold room.
And as I'm scraping out clay Oh.
The wrist literally shatters, on it, into, like, four pieces.
It just crumbles.
I'm just like, "no.
" I don't know if you noticed this, but I'm pretty jealous.
I wish I had some sexy glasses.
Sadly, as one gets older, they need glasses to see detail up close.
So I have these glasses and they're really great glasses.
You can snap them together, snap them apart.
And they're there, they're not gonna fall.
Oh, I don't know, know, man.
Fuck, I don't know.
I'm freaking out.
I got 30 minutes left, and I got this shattered mold, and I'm just like, "no.
" I really want this extra arm.
I feel like this is gonna give me the leg up.
So I brush in two nice coats of latex, kind of slap one on top the other, and then duct-tape it all together so the pieces hold.
I hope it dries overnight and, you know, the next day, come what may, man.
All right, that's got to work.
If it doesn't work, I'm fucked.
Everyone's doing these amazing creatures.
Wow, that outfit came together.
All I got is a human zombie.
I got to amp it up a little bit.
I find some rope.
This is gonna be a quick and easy way to make some intestines.
You just look so disgusted.
You're like, "Ew.
" All right, guys, that's time.
So by the end of the day, I'm nervous about tomorrow.
I'm worried about my painting, and getting all the pieces applied on time and finished.
'Cause we only have five hours altogether to finish our piece, and that's not that much time for a whole character.
It's application day.
We have four hours in the lab to do all of our application with our models.
Then we have one hour for last looks.
The first thing I do is I look at my pieces.
And they all turned out fantastic.
I came here to fight and compete.
And I'm-- Damn it-- I'm gonna compete.
I just know I need to save my rabbit zombie arm.
Got more work in here.
This is the first time I've ever done a zombie.
I want my queen to be short, so decide to go with Kevin, who was shorter.
I hope you're ready for the mad hatter.
I really do.
How does it feel? - I mean, nose and everything? - It feels good.
I'm not liking my paint job right now, because it seems a little flat.
So I need to put some kind of detail for depth.
I'm hoping that having my little extras make this character over the top and awesome to look at.
Squeeze it.
Yes! It worked.
Oh, my God.
It's exactly what I was thinking.
Like, just these boils-- just, like, infection, just, you know? Oh! Loving it! I'm loving it.
It looks cool! All right.
Let's start this makeup.
I'm feeling so nervous, and I'm looking around me, and I'm seeing that everybody is basically done applying their makeup.
And I'm-- I don't even have the ears on my thing yet! I'm just staring at this thing and I'm just baffled on how I'm gonna get this to work.
At this point, I cannot figure out a way to get these ears to stay up.
I don't know how to get these ears to stay up.
I'm freaking out.
I'm-- I feel like an idiot.
I'm just like "how could I not prepare for this to happen?" I'm just like, "don't cry, don't cry, don't cry.
" Just calm down.
Don't panic.
Who do I go to but Roy, because that's my mold cowboy.
Just turn it inside out.
The foam is what's giving it so much weight, so Roy helps me pull the foam out to get this ears to stay up.
Or we bend it that away.
- Yeah, that'll work.
- Okay.
I'd kiss you on the mouth, but it's very inappropriate.
I can't thank you enough, dude.
Sorry, I wont torture you that much longer.
I've got the face applied, and now I'm pinning the skin over the face, and everything has just come together on this.
Do me a favor and open your mouth for me.
You're the prettiest ugliest thing I've seen in a while.
I look up, and I see Derek's makeup, and I see how fantastic he's doing.
It's pushing me to go harder.
I'm almost thinking, "let's not use that.
" I am nervous about the look of the overall character, because with so many prosthetics, it looks too realistic, as if he's not wearing anything.
And I don't know if that's gonna hurt or help me.
Look straight ahead.
Laying hair is not something I normally do, so with the immunity, I'd like to just give it a shot and see what I can do.
If this arm would have came out like it would, you'd be able to slip it on like a glove.
That's how I designed it.
My zombie rabbit arm-- of course, it looks like crap.
I'm just wrapping it tight, and I'm stuffing foam in some of the bulgier areas.
You know, old-school bush-league tactics, but you know, when you're put up against the wall, what are you gonna do? A rabbit, for me-- this is how I feel all the time.
I feel like I'm constantly running out of time.
It really is ripping her head back.
A real dead body is pretty colorful.
There's a lot of blues, there's a lot of purples, there's a lot of green, yellow.
And I'm painting and it's not looking like what I'm picturing.
Oh, please make me be able to do the detail in time.
- What's the time? - Five minutes.
Thank you.
- I'm excited.
- Is that yours? Fits better? I'm now freaking out.
That's time, everybody.
I've got a lot of work for the last hour.
I have to do all these veins that I haven't touched yet, because I'm not sure what color to put on them.
There's just a lot of things that aren't clicking in this paint job, and I'm really concerned.
Coming up Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
I'm feeling like I could be one of the bottom looks.
A bit of a mess.
I'm just mesmerized by the look of this makeup.
We have one hour of last looks, and we got to get everything done as fast as we can.
Oh, my God.
All right.
I'm just gonna start painting.
My airbrush is broken.
Plan "B" is to just paint by hand, which is gonna take so much more time.
All right guys, that's ten minutes.
We got ten minutes.
My paint it getting darker and darker.
I made a lot of wrong color choices.
Fuck! And that's time, everyone.
Brushes down.
Everybody's look so good, and I'm a little worried at this point.
Everything went wrong, and I ran out of time.
Welcome to the Face Off reveal stage.
Tonight, one of you will be eliminated.
First let's say hello to your judges.
Owner of Optic Nerve Makeup Effects Studio, Glenn Hetrick.
- Good evening.
- Hey.
Three-time Oscar-winning makeup artist, Ve Neill.
Hi guys.
Creature and concept designer, Neville Page.
Hello.
And joining our panel this week, writer, producer, and director, with films like Event Horizon, Death Race, Alien Vs.
Predator, and, most recently, The Three Musketeers.
He's also written and produced all the Resident Evil films.
The newest addition to the franchise, Resident Evil, Retribution, which he also directed, comes out this Friday.
Please welcome Paul WS Anderson.
It's really cool to have Paul WS Anderson here to judge our zombie makeups.
I'm hoping that when he looks at my piece, he sees that Resident Evil quality.
Paul, thank you so much for joining us.
It's my pleasure to be here with so many talented people.
Okay, guys.
So your spotlight challenge this week was an original take on one of the classic characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as a zombie.
Let's see what you come up with.
I still don't think I've got a chance at the top.
I think my cat's too generic.
I feel good at this point, but I've been feeling good all day.
It's just a nice feeling to know that I'm safe.
Under the lights on the stage, it's looking really, really, really dark, and I'm noticing a bunch of flaws.
I think I put too much blood on him.
I'm worried that maybe they're not gonna see all the details as well as I hoped.
I see my creature come out, and it looks like a hillbilly rabbit.
I should have taken a step back and looked at it as one piece, but I was so into it, I got blinded.
Everybody else's looks so much more developed.
I'm feeling like I could be one of the bottom looks.
I'm feeling really good about this makeup.
It's probably one of the best ones that I've done since I've been here.
I'm really, really pleased with it.
It's definitely different from what other people have created.
I'm thinking, "that's not too bad.
" My makeup walks out, and I am thrilled.
If I go home, I will go home with my head held up high.
Well, judges, why don't you take a closer look? Wow, this is colorful.
Ah, thank you.
- Nice brain.
- Thank you.
Mouth open and close? Mm-mm.
- It doesn't open at all? - Mm-mm.
Okay, thanks.
Tilt your head all the way back, please.
I like the top half of it.
And from the bottom down, I screwed up really bad.
That's gonna put me at the bottom.
We want to know what you think of tonight's transformations.
Tell us on Twitter using #FaceOff.
I know it's bad.
I'm just hoping that my concept, at this point, is gonna save me.
Shoulder pad? - It's creeping me out.
- Yeah.
I know.
I still love it.
I'm really confident that I'm at least safe.
Open and close your moth.
Can you turn profile for us? Don't pull on those ears.
Those things are put together with latex, a lick, and a promise.
Paul, what were your thoughts? How do you think they did? There was a lot of creativity that went into it.
And to see how many great ideas there are here, I was really impressed.
Thank you.
All right, well, the judges have scored your creations, so let's find out what they thought.
Sarah, Jason, and Alana You are safe.
Thank you so much, guys.
Please head back to the makeup room.
So that means the rest of you were the best and the worst looks of the week.
The judges would like to speak with each of you to learn more about your work.
Tommy, you're up first.
Tommy, give us a background on the ideas you were working with here.
Well, my concept was the infection is running through his body.
He can see that different stages are happening at different times, so he puts all these wristwatches on.
While those watches are still ticking, he's running through the city, and he's taking out zombies.
And what we have here is finally the last watch ran out, and he quite literally ran out of time.
It seems like there's some cool ideas in there.
I can't see them.
I don't know what's happening, because you've just kind of got that loathsome device known as fun, fur, and gore.
I love all the concepts behind your creation.
And, I've got to say, I love the top 15% of it, which is the head.
I just wish the rest of your creation kind of matched what you've done with the-- with the head.
His left eye is such a big feature, but there's not enough gloss to make it stand out.
It's a bit of a mess.
What the heck is he wearing, and why? That is the most distracting, God-awful crap I've ever seen.
Um, well, in the storybook, he has got, like, that tweed jacket.
- Dude, that is not tweed.
- Oh.
That is a bloody flannel shirt.
Tommy, thank you.
You can step back.
Laura.
So, Laura, tell us about your thought process behind this.
He's a zombie but he still has that memory of being a hatter, so he uses his intestine as a measuring stick to measure the hats.
Nice.
One of the things I love about him is there's a real unity.
The color pallet is all very unified, which, I think, is very, very strong.
I think he's a wonderful creation.
- Thank you.
- I love it.
I love the fact that it's sympathetic, and it's locked in this echo of the human emotions, and it makes it more frightening.
Well done.
Yes.
Thank you.
Laura, please step back.
Roy.
Tell us about the inspiration behind this character you've created.
Uh, the inspiration is that this is the queen, and she's been infected with the virus, and so she's starting to mutate.
And her skin is making her into the queen, so she's forming the crown out of her skin, and all of her clothing is starting to just rip away and pull and bend and twist into-- into her wardrobe.
I'm just mesmerized by the look of this makeup that you did.
- Really beautifully done.
- Thank you very much.
If I was making a movie, I'd be delighted to see a design like this.
But also, I'd be expecting a team of like six or seven people to execute it.
I think it's quite remarkable.
Roy, the fact that you've created the design on the top of the head that is so regal and elegant is my absolute favorite thing about this makeup.
Well done.
Roy, thank you very much.
You can step back.
Thank you.
Nicole, you're up.
Give us a brief description of the concept.
I wanted to play off the eat me, drink me.
I wanted this vial to be the infection, and then she's now eating the rabbit.
I like the ideas, but it's the paintwork that really makes it go flat.
She just disappears.
I don't know what would have possessed you to make her face all dark.
Even if your veins went south, you could have painted the veins on by hand.
I applaud the ambition of the pulsing boils, but that stuff is really difficult to get right.
You know, maybe just a bit too ambitious for the time that you had.
Nicole, thank you.
Will you please step back? Derek.
I got to tell you, when he first walked out, I thought he made a pink cat, own criminy.
" And then I got up close.
And it's pretty cool.
I mean, the asymmetry is great.
The whiskers on one side, the teeth on the other.
He's morphed, he's gross, he's very colorful-- I got to give it-- but the cheshire cat was purple, so there you go.
I'm not sure what it is, but there's something about that shirt color that I really like.
The mouth on the left side is fantastic.
I love this design.
It encapsulates the world of mutation in Resident Evil.
I love how asymmetrical the whole design is, which I think is really fresh.
Cool, thank you.
Appreciate it.
Derek, thank you so much.
Will you please step back? Rod, please step forward.
Rod, give us the backstory to your character here.
The virus that she's infected with has hyper-accelerated her metabolism.
Because of that, her skin goes from full-sized to shriveled and back and forth.
And that's what all the texture has come from.
I'm having a hard time finding the driving forces propelling this design.
I don't really understand the color choice that you made by giving her this skin color.
It's not really rotten and it's not really dead, and it's just kind of an odd color choice.
And I think, for me, you just kind of missed the mark on it.
What I don't find at all is a zombie infected with the virus.
You've missed the point of the whole challenge.
Rod, thank you very much.
- Thank you, thank you.
- Please step back.
Okay, well, the judges have heard what you have to say.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room while they make their decisions.
All right guys, so let's start with the looks that you like the most.
Why don't we start with Roy.
I really dug that makeup.
You know, with the right lighting and a little gloss, that thing could be amazing-looking just as it is.
It really captured what I think is great about Resident Evil, which is the kind of mutation aspect of it.
Okay, let's move on to Laura's makeup.
There are no gaps between the coloring of her makeup, the wardrobe choices, even the concept.
Very, very solid all the way through.
Very well executed.
All right, let's move on to Derek.
It was really, really good.
I loved the mask.
I loved the asymmetry of it.
When we got up close to it, you really could see the detail a lot better.
All right, so why don't we move on to the looks that you liked the least.
Let's start with Tommy.
It looks like even that one big bulging eye just sort of got lost in the makeup.
I was disappointed with the design.
It felt very thrown-together.
All right, let's move on to Nicole.
I can't believe that she would just paint the face charcoal gray.
The boils that looked like brains, you know, it just looked like bad brains.
Yeah.
All right, let's move on to Rod.
This bums me out so much.
For me that makeup looked like a very bizarre old-age makeup.
It has nothing to do with Alice in Wonderland.
And then it has nothing to do with zombies.
- Right.
- Like drinking blood.
That's more kind of vampiric.
Okay, judges, have you made your decisions? - I think so.
- We have.
Yes.
Let's bring them back out.
all right, Glenn, why don't you tell us about the top looks? This week our top looks are Roy We loved your hyper-stylized queen, and we thought that you accomplished an absolutely amazing amount of work in the time that you had.
Thank you.
Laura You made some really interesting sculptural choices, and you really managed to create this feeling of sympathy with your character.
Derek Your design really captured the spirit of this challenge.
And your asymmetrical approach to your design left a big impression on us.
Paul, why don't you do the honors tonight, and tell us who the winner of this challenge is? The winner is Paul, why don't you do the honors tonight, and tell us who the winner of this challenge is? The winner is Roy.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
This is the best moment I've had on the show, because this is me individually with a win, finally.
Roy, congratulations.
You can head back to the makeup room.
Laura and Derek, you are also safe.
Please head back to the makeup room.
Unfortunately, that means the three of you were on the bottom this week, and one of you will be eliminated.
Nicole, Tommy, Rod If you'd please step to the center.
Glenn, why don't you tell us about the bottom looks? Tommy, I think you might have had some good ideas, but it's just impossible to see any of them.
Nicole, there is just too many things that went wrong for you tonight, in particular, your paint job.
Rod, it didn't read as a zombie, and we were just confused.
All right, Glenn, who's going home tonight? The person going home tonight is Nicole.
Ultimately, we felt that there were so many ways that you could have saved your makeup.
The rest of you are safe this week, and can head back to the makeup room.
Thank you.
Nicole, we can tell that you have a great passion for your craft.
Just keep plugging away, you'll get there.
I will.
Thank you.
Nicole, it's been really great having you here with us.
If you'd please head back to the makeup room, and pack up your kit.
Thank you guys.
Hi.
- Me.
- No.
A lot of people go through life and never find what they love to do, and I'm a lucky person that's found that.
Makeup is my soul.
It's what I live for.